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In addition to the roads before mentioned, each of which will communicate directly with foreign territory, and may be of important advantage for military purposes, the improvement of the navigation of our rivers by clearing them of natural obstructions, & the opening of Canals and water courses in different parts of the State, are objects to which the attention of the General Government might be properly invited.

It will be recollected that on a former occasion I expressed a wish for reasons then assigned, not to be a candidate for re-election, but to be permitted to retire from this office at the close of the last year. Circumstances arising from that intimation seemed, hower [however], to require that I should so far yield my wishes as not, at that time, absolutely to withdraw from the service of the State. Since then the whole people have had ample opportunity to interchange opinions in relation to a successor, and the present seems to me a favorable time for making a change in the Supreme Executive of the State.

Hoping that the public good will be promoted & believing that the public tranquility will not be disturbed by the measure, I have determined to withdraw from the administration of the Government at the close of the present year. In announcing this determination, I feel called upon to declare my deep sense of the kindness manifested by my fellow citizens in repeatedly affording me the most valuable reward in their power to bestow, the unequivocal evidence of their confidence & approbation.

I may have occasion in the progress of the session to make further communications by special message, and will now only add, that it shall be my constant endeavour [endeavor] to do every thing in my power to facilitate the dispatch of the public business, & to co-operate with the two branches of the Legislature in all such measures as will have tendency to promote the public welfare; and that it will ever be among the highest gratifications of my life to see the people of this State united and prosperous and happy.

Albion K Parris.

Council Chamber

January 7th 1826.

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+In addition to the roads before mentioned, each of which will communicate directly with foreign territory, and may be of important advantage for military purposes, the improvement of the navigation of our rivers by clearing them of natural obstructions, & the opening of Canals and water courses in different parts of the State, are objects to which the attention of the General Government might be properly invited.
+It will be recollected that on a former occasion I expressed a wish for reasons then assigned, not to be a candidate for re-election, but to be permitted to retire from this office at the close of the last year. Circumstances arising from that intimation seemed, hower [however], to require that I should so far yield my wishes as not, at that time, absolutely to withdraw from the service of the State. Since then the whole people have had ample opportunity to interchange opinions in relation to a successor, and the present seems to me a favorable time for making a change in the Supreme Executive of the State.
+Hoping that the public good will be promoted & believing that the public tranquility will not be disturbed by the measure, I have determined to withdraw from the administration of the Government at the close of the present year. In announcing this determination, I feel called upon to declare my deep sense of the kindness manifested by my fellow citizens in repeatedly affording me the most valuable reward in their power to bestow, the unequivocal evidence of their confidence & approbation.
+I may have occasion in the progress of the session to make further communications by special message, and will now only add, that it shall be my constant endeavour [endeavor] to do every thing in my power to facilitate the dispatch of the public business, & to co-operate with the two branches of the Legislature in all such measures as will have tendency to promote the public welfare; and that it will ever be among the highest gratifications of my life to see the people of this State united and prosperous and happy.
+Albion K Parris.
+Council Chamber
+January 7th 1826.